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2023 reading list and commentary

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This is the thread of the books I am reading this year. One hundred and fourteen books. I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. I was busier, happier.

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2023 in Libraries

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Kimball (79) – Most weeks I worked here one day and I stopped by a lot of other times, for sub shifts or just to get a book. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I got some books out. Previous years: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003.

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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

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CFP URL: [link] CALL FOR CHAPTERS We are seeking chapter proposals for a book entitled Teaching Digital Storytelling: Inspiring Voices Through Online Narratives that will be edited by Dr. Sheila Marie Aird and Dr. Thomas P. This new book will be published in fall 2023 for the Innovations in Information Literacy series edited by Trudi E.

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2022 reading list and commentary

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I read a lot of books this year but in many ways it wasn’t a great year for me (it’s improving) so I have mixed feelings about the sheer length of this list and am hoping to read LESS this year. I started to read 144 books and finished 142 but kept up with a few I maybe shouldn’t have. average read per month: 12.

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2021 reading list and commentary

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I started and finished 115 books. One more book got added to my best in show category: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, though I felt like I read a lot of good books this year. Here are stats for the books that I finished. ebook to book ratio: 63:52. Here are stats for the books that I finished.

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Town-city management: We are all asset managers now " (2015) is a further extension of these ideas, in part around risk management (" Where is the risk management approach to police misconduct and regularized killings of citizens? ," 2020). One of the most important books I read in the late 1980s, pre-Internet, was Maximarketing.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ). In response, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities attempted to suppress certain forms of expression (" After outcry, D.C.